Protection Alexei Ulyukayev appealed the verdict
Lawyers of ex-Minister of economic development Alexei Ulyukayev, convicted of receiving $2 million bribe, filed an appeal against the decision of Zamoskvoretsky regional court.
“The court received the appeal on the verdict from the lawyer Darejan Queeze representing the interests of Alexey Uljukaev” — said TASS in Zamoskvoretsky court.
On 15 December the court found speaker guilty of receiving $2 million in bribes from the head of “Rosneft” Igor Sechin and sentenced him to eight years in a strict regime colony and a fine of 130 million rubles. the speaker Himself did not plead guilty.
The former Federal Minister was sent to the Federal detention centre No. 1 (“Matrosskaya Tishina”), the so-called part of the “Kremlin Central”, which include high-ranking prisoners.